(NYTIMES) A long, long time ago - I can still remember how that music used to make me smile.
American Pie, Don McLean's generation-defining ballad, was released on vinyl 50 years ago this past October. The first time I heard it, I was with my sister in our kitchen. I was 13. I was eating a bowl of Alpha-Bits cereal.
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